Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because ’ — his speech slurred a fraction — ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story I heard the other day which I could n't possibly tell you if you had a lady Archdeacon . ’ |
| 2 | As I swabbed the table with disinfectant I had the old feeling of helplessness . |
| 3 | In each case I pressed the national authorities concerned to allow me to send a UK ‘ observer ’ to their investigation and I am happy to say that our request was agreed to on each occasion . |
| 4 | Then after about an hour I heard the familiar heavy tread of Dad 's boots on the cobbles . |
| 5 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 6 | and you get gale force winds blowing down there and of course I opened the back door and there were panes of glass flying past |
| 7 | Far out to sea to the west I saw the bright lights of the Athens boat . |
| 8 | And they come in , I mean he skids in the hall at night I mean it 's my fault I threw the rubber ring towards the kitchen down the hall he sort of skidded before he got there and there was a , and he must of had mud er , you know like like he had |
| 9 | So when we walked from the pool to the car I felt the whole impact of the sun . |
| 10 | Leaving the pretty village of Thwaite I climbed the green lane to Shunner and below the summit had overtaken " the Dog Man " . |
| 11 | ‘ No wonder I got the damned boat cheaply , ’ he said . |
| 12 | As in a dream I seized the bristly hairs . |
| 13 | At one TV training session I swapped the whole room around , putting the audience on the stage and doing the presentation from the floor ! |
| 14 | With all my might I stamped at its head , but missed it by a couple of inches ; again I stamped with the same extraordinary result ; but with the third stamp I caught the poor little creature and crushed it to pulp , and yet it gave one more thrust with its tiny legs and then lay still . |
| 15 | Psyched down after this epic battle I allowed the treacherous turf to gain revenge on the much easier pitch above . |
| 16 | In Committee I promised the Hon. Member for Dundee East ( Mr. McAllion ) that I would follow up with the Scottish Development Agency the need for management-employee buy-out teams to receive the same treatment as any other applicant for assistance from the SDA . |
| 17 | When he plugged in — Sonic The Hedgehog I saw the fantastic graphics and nearly fainted . |
| 18 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 19 | However , as soon as we reached our new vantage I understood the real reason why he had wanted to move . |
| 20 | At that moment I heard the young people returning from their walk . |
| 21 | The next moment I heard the confident heel taps behind me . |
| 22 | For one brief moment I felt the full shock of its death ; of a life , until recently , so remote , so inextricably part of the mountains and forests , now suddenly laid out at my feet . |
| 23 | Instinct told me it was going to be one of those days the moment I removed the little grey shrivelled chicken from the oven . |
| 24 | And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside . |
| 25 | Away to the right I saw the flat gleam of the loch . |
| 26 | Fiona telephoned during the afternoon to say that she 'd brought Harry home and he wanted to see me , so with a sigh but little reluctance I abandoned the empty page and walked down to the village . |
| 27 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw the young man join Pavic 's queue . |
| 28 | Twenty-eighth June — this evening I joined the Marine Commandos to take part in a night standing patrol . |
| 29 | I remind the Hon. Gentleman that when I launched the valleys initiative I challenged the Labour party to choose it as a subject for the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs . |
| 30 | When I first started teaching drama I accepted the prevailing dogma that you started by getting children to work individually , then in pairs , then in small groups and eventually ( when they were really good at drama ) in larger groups ! |